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May 26th, 2023 00:00
Dell Inspiron BIOS Corrupted
Inspiron 15 3511
Hello, I'm facing issue with my laptop's BIOS.
It's Dell Inspiron 3511. Suddenly when I power on it. It started showing that BIOS is corrupted and Auto BIOS recovery is triggered.
Then it starts recovery. It easily reaches the point where it shows BIOS recovery is successful and it's going to restart.
But unfortunately after restart it returns to same problem of corrupted BIOS and that loop is going on.
How to fix this ?? What if BIOS recovery is missing in HDD .How to recover using USB?
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ejn63
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May 26th, 2023 04:00
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000132453/how-to-recover-the-bios-on-a-dell-computer-or-tablet
Saltgrass
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May 26th, 2023 06:00
You might keep in mind, the Bios recovery may be using old Bios versions kept in the EFI System partition. Recently, it appears, those images are causing problems by filling up the EFI system partition to a point where normal operations may fail.
I have no way of knowing if anything like this is involved with your system.
Saeed 7463
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May 26th, 2023 07:00
These too steps are in loop
MrFancyCakes
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May 30th, 2023 12:00
Hi, my Dell Inspirion has this same issue which also developed on May 26th, 2023
I've tried recovering the Bios with USB following the steps here https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000132453/how-to-recover-the-bios-on-a-dell-computer-or-tablet By downloading the .RCV files on a formatted FAT 32 removable drive.
This has not resolved my issue and my computer still has a bios autorecovery boot loop.
I tried to restore using bios 1.21.0(Apr 2023) as well as 1.4.0 (Jan 2021) and neither have fixed my issue.
Saeed 7463
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May 31st, 2023 11:00
I simply went to Dell service center. And they recovered BIOS using USB.
They pressed F12 instead of ctrl + escape.
I don't know how.
MrFancyCakes
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May 31st, 2023 12:00
Thanks for the update.
Did they hold F12 in the same fashion as you're supposed to with CTRL + ESC (HOLD, then plug in power adapter, release when caps lock light comes on)?
Or was it some different combination. I see that this leads into a different screen before the inevitable bootloop from bios corruption.
Do you know what Bios was used on the USB, or size of the USB stick? I'm sorry for the one million questions but this doesn't seem like it should be this big of a problem
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June 1st, 2023 04:00
Every time you start your computer, you see two F keys mentioned which are F2 and F12. The F12 key is for a boot device menu, from which you pick what you want to boot to.
They booted from the USB drive, which allowed them to bypass the Auto Recovery operation.
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October 3rd, 2023 04:08
@MrFancyCakes
Hello, I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it with a specific version?